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Empirical realism and democratic equality

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Recently, empirical political scientists have challenged presuppositions about voter behavior that they take to be widespread in normative democratic theory, charging that democratic theory is unmoored from empirical reality. For their part, many normative democratic theorists have rejected empiricists’ characterizations of their subfield and ...
Emma Saunders‐Hastings
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Networks of coercion: Military ties and civilian leadership challenges in China

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Civilian‐led coups are one of the most common routes to losing power in autocracies. How do authoritarian leaders secure themselves from civilian leadership challenges? We argue that autocrats differentiate civilian rivals in part by their social ties to the military.
Tyler Jost, Daniel Mattingly
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The Supreme Court and the Supreme People

The Journal of Politics, 1954
"No matter whether the Constitution follows the flag or not, the Supreme Court follows the election returns." So concluded the immortal Dooley after some observations about the Insular Cases in the course of which he also said of the Constitution that it wasn't likely to chase the flag anywhere, being more in the nature of a home-staying Constitution ...
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Androgyny and the Supreme Court

Journal of Women, Politics & Policy, 1980
Since 1971 the Supreme Court has decided a large number of cases presenting questions of gender-based discrimination and other issues of interest to feminists. While the cases have been decided on various constitutional and statutory grounds, it is argued that the Court, on the whole, has been guided by the principle of androgyny-defined here as the ...
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The Supreme Court and the Juvenile Court

Crime & Delinquency, 1967
For the first time in its 68-year history, the juvenile court has felt the impact of the United States Supreme Court. It would be impossible to predict the exact effect of the decisions, but unquestionably they will be of prime importance in their influ ence on juvenile court procedures.
Corinne R. Goodman, Noah Weinstein
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Supreme Court and Supreme Law

The American Journal of Comparative Law, 1954
Edmond Cahn, Edward McWhinney
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Conservatives on the supreme court [PDF]

open access: possibleConstitutional Political Economy, 1992
It is shown: (a) the core conservatives justices now on the Supreme Court (identified as White, Rehnquist, O'Connor, Scalia and Kennedy) are preoccupied with the problem of the fit between their rulings and the sources of law and with the ideal of predictability; (b) a new jurisprudential approach developed by Justice Scalia is gaining acceptance ...
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The Supreme Court and Progressivism: Bickel and Schmidt's History of the Supreme Court

American Bar Foundation Research Journal, 1987
During the early twentieth century the Progressives grappled with issues that continue to confront Americans today. The Supreme Court was central to the Progressive Era's response to big business, race relations, and environmental conservation; and the interplay between Progressivism and the Court shaped the nation's experience with these issues ...
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